BREAKING: Kwakwanso’s NNPP Wins Kano From APC

The Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso led New Nigerian National Party, NNPP has won the Kano State governorship election through its candidate Yusuf Abba Kyari who polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat his closest challenger, the incumbent Deputy Governor of the state, Malam Yusuf Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate who polled 892,705 votes.

It is the first win for the governorship victory for the NNPP.

Announcing the result on Monday in Kano, the state Returning Officer, Prof. Doko Ibrahim, the Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, said Yusuf polled 1,019,602 votes to clinch the seat.

Ibrahim said that Yusuf defeated his closest rival and incumbent Deputy Governor of the state, Malam Yusuf Gawuna, of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who scored 892,705 votes.

He said: “That I, Prof. Doko Ibrahim, declared that the election was contested by 18 candidates.

“Having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, Abba Kabiru Yusuf of the NNPP is hereby declared winner and returned elected,” he said. (NAN)

GWG.ng reports that the victory is a major setback for the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje led administration which had sought to prevent the return of the Kwakwanso tendency to Kano, a move that has now failed with the win of the NNPP.

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